CPU COMPARISON

CPU COMPARISON is very interesting , For the first part of Intel Pentium D Core i7 to arrive at the modern, but it starts from AMD Athlon 64 X2 models to get the latest model Phenom X4 II.

In more detail we see whole families cpu comparison analyzed:

Intel

Core i7 9xx: 45-nanometer production technology
Core 2 Quad Q9xxx: 45-nanometer production technology
Core 2 Quad Q8xxx: 45-nanometer production technology
Core 2 Quad Q6xxx: 65-nanometer production technology
Core 2 Duo E8xxx: 45-nanometer production technology
Core 2 Duo E7xxx: 45-nanometer production technology
Core 2 Duo E6xxx: 65-nanometer production technology
Core 2 Duo E4xxx: 65-nanometer production technology
Pentium E6xxx: 45-nanometer production technology
Pentium E5xxx: 45-nanometer production technology
Pentium Extreme Edition 90-nanometer production technology
Pentium D: 65-nanometer production technology

Amd

Phenom X4 II: 45-nanometer production technology
Phenom X3 II: 45-nanometer production technology
Phenom X2: 45 nanometer production technology
Phenom X4 65-nanometer production technology
Phenom X3: 65-nanometer production technology
Athlon X2: 45 nanometer production technology
Athlon 64 X2: 90 nanometer production technology

Test platforms cpu comparison

i7:
Motherboard-Gigabyte EX-58UD4P (Intel X58);
Corsair DDR3 ram modules-3-1333 from 2 Gbytes each, timings 9-9-9-24;

C2D/C2Q/Pentium:
Motherboard Gigabyte GA-X48T-DQ6-(Intel X48 Express);
Ram G. Skill DDR3 modules-2-1333 from 2 Gbytes each, timings 9-9-9-24;

AMD:
Motherboard Asus M3A78-T-(AMD 790GX);
Ram-2 GSkill DDR2-1066 modules from 2 Gbytes each, timings 5-5-5-15;

and the rest is common to all platforms:
Video Card-Point of View GeForce GTX 285 (675 MHz GPU clock, clock 1,537 MHz stream processors, video memory clock 2,550 MHz);
HDD Maxtor DiamondMax 23 500-Gbytes, SATA
Enermax Infinity 720-watt power supply.
OS-Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit Service Pack 1;
NVIDIA Forceware 185.85 Drivers nVidia-.

Cpu Comparison Conclusions

In this cpu comparison the technological evolution in the processor market exchanged in the last 5 years has led to a radical evolution of CPUs at an architectural level, by following some well-defined trends:

abandonment of a maximum clock frequency responsible for the increase of CPU performance: he had reached the limits in terms of maximum frequency reached, exceeded only reaching levels of consumption are no longer acceptable;
finding the best possible balance between speed performance and a predefined maximum level of consumption of the processor at full load, synthesized by the producers themselves said the level of TDP for a specific cpu;


CPU COMPARISON